becoming
MONSTER

A Convening at the End of the Human

Online and In Person, October 30th - November 3rd, 2024

(hosted by TEN in collaboration with School of Liminal Arts, Unashay & Facilitators from around the Globe)

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becoming -
The process of coming to be something or of passing into a state.
[Oxford English Dictionary]

MONSTER -
A zone of encounter between neurotypical modes of sensing the world and a ‘world’ – errant, fugitive, and excessive – that spills beyond our languages, our grammars of the body, and our practices of representation.
[Báyò Akómoláfé]

all artwork by Krista Dragomer (see bio and contact below)

Becoming Monster is a five-day festival with virtual, hybrid and in-person components hosted by ten(The Emergence Network) and a strange ecology of friends and partners (non-human and human alike) from around the planet. This event is a space held for grieving the losses that come with living into the end-times AND playing with ideas of fabulation, imagination and questioning: what else might the human be in our crumbling, entangled, pulsating, animist world(s).

This festival will take place October 30th – November 3rd, 2024 in a season associated with a porosity between realms, celebrations of reunion between the living and the dead, congress with the underworld and the ancestors. There will be a schedule of online offerings, as well as self-organized in-person gatherings and events in different places around the world. This will be a highly participatory experience shaped and in-bodied by those who make offerings during our time together. Modes of inquiry and praxis may include making art together, engaging in ritual and ceremony, and opening space for heart / body / instinct-centered practices.

In this season and spirit, we invite you to join us in our humble and audacious attempts to…

co-create collective spaces for honoring, exploring and accompanying processes of dying, decomposition, descent, transmogrification, and grief

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initiate rituals for ‘coming undone’ and unraveling together

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practice embracing descent and sit with fears of losing the comforts and securities promised by modernity

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journey beyond the limits of belonging and citizenship during the so-called anthropocene

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feed our minds, bodies, spirits, and souls while we feel into these unsettled spaces

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find places of celebration and communing amidst the grieving and questioning.